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What?

This is a collection of tools to track philosophy papers and blog posts that recently appeared somewhere on the open internet.

Installation

I’m running this on Ubuntu 22.

OS packages

add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt install aspell-en libaspell-dev libmysqlclient-dev libreoffice unoconv pkg-config tesseract-ocr imagemagick poppler-utils pdftk ghostscript cuneiform wkhtmltopdf

Python packages (pip in virtualenv):

pip install lxml nltk selenium numpy scikit-learn google-api-python-client lxml pymysql beautifulsoup4 webdriver_manager pytest trafilatura

Also:

$ python
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download('punkt')
$ sudo mv ~/nltk_data /usr/share/

Perl packages (only works with sudo):

sudo cpan -i DBI DBD::mysql LWP Text::Aspell Text::Capitalize Text::Unidecode Text::Names String::Approx Lingua::Stem::Snowball JSON Config::JSON Statistics::Lite

Firefox/geckodriver

Getting firefox and geckodriver to run is a bit of a pain. I installed both manually and entered their location in config.json. I also had to install libgtk-3-dev and libdbus-glib-1-2.

Test your installation:

pytest test/test_browser.py -k "test_install"

Google

Create a google API key: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/introduction Then create a custom search engine: https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/controlpanel/all

config.json

Copy cp_to_config.json to config.json and fill in the relevant fields.

The small print

The development of an earlier stage of this software was supported by the University of London and the UK Joint Information Systems Committee as part of the PhilPapers 2.0 project (Information Environment programme).

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

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